Winslow Township School District

Winslow Township School District
30 Cooper Folly Road
Atco, NJ 08004
District information
Grades PreK to 12
Superintendent Dr. H. Major Poteat
Business administrator Tyra McCoy-Boyle
Schools 8
Students and staff
Enrollment 4,932 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 435.2 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 11.33:1
Other information
District Factor Group CD
Website www.winslow-schools.com
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-12
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$20,29275$18,8917.4%
1Budgetary Cost15,6697214,7836.0%
2Classroom Instruction9,554828,7639.0%
6Support Services2,573732,3927.6%
8Administrative Cost1,693881,48514.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,361201,783-23.7%
13Extracurricular Activities25051268-6.7%
16Median Teacher Salary71,1618064,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

The Winslow Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Winslow Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district operates four elementary schools (grades Pre-K - 3), two upper elementary schools (grades 4 - 6), one middle school (grades 7 - 8), and one high school (grades 9 - 12).

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's eight schools had an enrollment of 4,932 students and 435.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.33:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[3]

Students from Chesilhurst attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Chesilhurst Borough School District. The Chesilhurst district had served public school students in kindergarten through sixth grade at Shirley B. Foster Elementary School until the completion of the 2008-09 school year, after which the district was no longer operating any schools and began sending all of its students to the Winslow Township schools as part of an expansion of the pre-existing sending/receiving relationship that commenced in the 2009-10 school year.[4][5]

History

The district was formed in 1998, after voters approved a split from the Lower Camden County Regional School District, creating the Edgewood (later renamed Winslow) middle and high schools in 2001 to accompany the previously existing K-6 operation.[6]

Shooting plot

Winslow Township High School gained national attention in 2006 because of a shooting plot which was to take place during a lunch period. A student became aware of the plot and alerted school officials who in turn notified the Winslow Township Police Department. The students involved were arrested before the plot could be carried out. The only subject to be sentenced at this point has received four years probation and must undergo counseling and psychological evaluations.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]

Elementary schools
Middle school
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[19][20]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Winslow Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Osborne, James. "N.J. to investigate Chesilhurst school district", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Up until last year, Chesilhurst functioned as a traditional school district and maintained a single elementary school. In the spring of 2009, the school board voted to close that school and bus its students to Winslow, leaving Chesilhurst to operate in an administrative capacity with a skeleton staff. Chesilhurst, a small district on the edge of the Pinelands, subsequently was declared a non-operating district by the state and set for closure at the end of June 2010."
  5. ↑ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2010, Chesilhurst Board of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Up through the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the District provided a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels Pre-K through 6.... Beginning in the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the District entered into a sending/receiving tuition arrangement with Winslow Township Board of Education which included all students."
  6. ↑ Arnold, Stephanie L. "Getting Down To Work On Schools In Winslow, Site Preparation Is One Step Toward Expansions And Renovations.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 1999. Accessed November 2, 2014. "DeLosso said the target date for completion of the project was September 2001. That also is the year when the Lower Camden County Regional School District is scheduled to disband. Its seven towns - Berlin Township, Chesilhurst, Clementon, Lindenwold, Pine Hill, Waterford and Winslow - will become responsible for educating their own students."
  7. ↑ Klatell, James. "Principal: Kids' Tips Stopped Shooting", CBS News, April 8, 2006. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Authorities say a tip from two girls alerted officials at Winslow Township High School to a plot in which four teenagers were allegedly planning a lunch-period massacre."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Winslow Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ Contact Us, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Winslow Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 1, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  12. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 2, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  13. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 3, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  14. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 4, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  15. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 5, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  16. ↑ Winslow Township Elementary School No. 6, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  17. ↑ Winslow Township Middle School, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  18. ↑ Winslow Township High School, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  19. ↑ Board Office Staff Directory, Winslow Township School District. Accessed November 1, 2014.
  20. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

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